Sabah Tham Clan Association » Sabah / 沙 巴 州 http://thamclan.org/v2 Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:25:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 About Sabah http://thamclan.org/v2/2008/05/20/about-sabah/ http://thamclan.org/v2/2008/05/20/about-sabah/#comments Tue, 20 May 2008 13:26:51 +0000 cereal87 http://thamclan.org/v2/?p=95 Sabah is a Malaysian state located on the northern portion of the island of Borneo. It is the second largest state in Malaysia after Sarawak, which it borders with on its south-west. It also shares a border with the province of East Kalimantan of Indonesia in the south. Sabah used to be a British crown colony known as North Borneo prior to partnership with Federation of Malaya, Sarawak and Singapore to form the Federation of Malaysia in 1963. Its state capital is Kota Kinabalu, formerly known as Jesselton. Sabah is known as Sabah, negeri di bawah bayu, which means ‘Sabah, land below the wind’, because of its location being just south of the typhoon prone region around the Philippines.

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]]> http://thamclan.org/v2/2008/05/20/about-sabah/feed/ 0 People in Sabah http://thamclan.org/v2/2008/05/20/people-in-sabah/ http://thamclan.org/v2/2008/05/20/people-in-sabah/#comments Tue, 20 May 2008 09:58:29 +0000 cereal87 http://thamclan.org/v2/?p=88 The federal government of Malaysia officially recognizes 28 ethnic groups as being indigenous or bumiputra in Sabah:

Other inhabitants:

Chinese people has been brought in during the British Crown Colony and their presence can be seen until today. Major towns’ businesses are run by Chinese and the Chinese community has played a great role in developing Sabah and in the local government politics. Other races such as Indians, Sarawak bumiputra, Filipinos and Indonesians can be spotted around major cities. Most of them are here looking for job opportunities.

]]> http://thamclan.org/v2/2008/05/20/people-in-sabah/feed/ 0 Getting into Sabah http://thamclan.org/v2/2008/05/20/getting-into-sabah/ http://thamclan.org/v2/2008/05/20/getting-into-sabah/#comments Tue, 20 May 2008 09:58:28 +0000 cereal87 http://thamclan.org/v2/?p=80 Air travel is the easiest way to get into Sabah. The main gateway is via Kota Kinabalu International Airport (KKIA)(IATA: BKI, ICAO: WBKK). It is aproximately 8km southwest from the city centre.

KKIA recieves direct flights from:

AirAsia – flies from

  • Kuala Lumpur
  • Clark Airport (just outside Manila), Philippines
  • Bangkok, Thailand

Dragonair – flies from

  • Hong Kong

Malaysia Airlines – flies from

  • Kuala Lumpur
  • Brunei
  • Guangzhou & Shanghai – Mainland China
  • Hong Kong – Greater China
  • Taipei, Gaoxiung – Taiwan Region, Greater China
  • Tokyo & Osaka – Japan
  • Cebu & Manila – Philippines
  • Singapore
  • Seoul – South Korea
  • Taipei & Kaohsiung – Taiwan
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